June 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Business is changing – both online and in the real world, people no longer want to drop the same old tired goods into their shopping carts. Modern-day consumers crave goods that they have had an active hand in designing and customizing. Co-creation is the answer to this [...]

June 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team If you’re like most Americans, you’re still dealing with the effects of the “Great Recession,” a massive economic downturn caused by extremely corrupt and irresponsible practices at some of the largest financial institutions in America and the world. In the wake of all the taxpayer money that [...]

June 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE) saw a groundbreaking advance in textbook technology on Tuesday, with the release of the first digital-only textbook for the K-12 setting from CTB/McGraw Hill. While other textbook companies have had success with college-level textbooks, several elements have held back [...]

June 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Starbucks has officially unveiled its new payment system for Android. The new app will allow Starbucks customers to pay with their smartphones at nearly 9,000 locations in the U.S. The new addition to Starbucks mobile payment system makes them one of the few who have provided such [...]

June 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team TravelShark is a company that tries to connect hotels with travelers. You might be think that it’s the same thing as Expedia, Orbitz, or Kayak. But it’s not even close. The company has over 12,000 websites that enable users to find hotels for the destinations they are [...]

June 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Andy Rubin, the vice president for engineering at Google announced yesterday morning in a Tweet that the company is now activating over 500,000 Android devices daily.  The number is growing 4.4% a week.  There are probably a lot of people over at Apple that are wondering why [...]

June 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team As consumers we see thousands of advertisements every day. Whether it’s a commercial, a banner on your favorite ecommerce solution, or a t-shirt someone is wearing, we are constantly exposed to a plethora of advertisements every day. One company has taken clothing advertising to a new level. [...]

June 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team ThingWorx announced early yesterday that it has acquired Rochester, NY-based Palantiri Systems which is makes the AlwaysOn software platform.  According to the Palantiri websites AlwasOn technology “enables people, remote devices, and enterprise business systems to maintain a constant connection with each other through a real-time, encrypted, firewall [...]

June 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Zynga, a social gaming company with built-in user ecommerce solution, primarily known for the incredibly addictive Farmville, is planning to file for an IPO as early as today. The company has been reported to have around a $15 to $20 billion valuation, and hopes to bring as [...]

June 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team It seems that anywhere hackers want to go, they’ll go. No website, ecommerce solution, or database is truly secure against the hacking collective Anonymous (along with some members of the now-disbanded LulzSec hacker group). Their latest target was the main public-facing site of MasterCard. The world’s second [...]

June 28, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team LivingSocial has taken after Google and is currently on an acquisition spree. The daily deal ecommerce solution has acquired GoNabIt, a daily deal site concentrated on the Middle-East. The company then went to Thailand and the Phillipines to acquire Ensogo. Next they jumped over to Indonesia and [...]

June 28, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Baidu, China’s largest search engine has officially agreed to invest US $306 million for a majority stake in Qunar.com, an ecommerce solution and search engine for booking hotels, flights, trains, and package travel deals. Baidu CEO Zhuang Chenchao revealed the heavy cash infusion will go towards Qunar’s [...]

June 28, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Pew, a tech research firm, recently surveyed adults in the United States on whether or not they own a tablet or e-reader. The study showed that 12% of adults own an e-reader, while only 8% own a tablet. Six months ago only 6% percent owned an e-reader. [...]

June 28, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team People love Apple products. The merest whisper of a rumor is enough to spark up a dozen or more “insider” blogs. Eager consumers swarm their ecommerce solution every time a new product comes out or when old ones are upgraded or experience a price break. The latest [...]

June 28, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team If you felt a disturbance in the Force this weekend, like thousands of voices cried out for an instant and were then silenced, it’s because Star Wars Galaxies has been slated for termination. The move comes after rounds of talks between Sony and Lucas Arts, the company [...]

June 27, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team If you’re like a billion (yes, literally a billion) other users, then you use Microsoft’s “Office” suite of products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. There are a number of reasons why so many people use Microsoft software and keep putting new versions into their shopping carts. For starters, [...]